Quantum ActiveScale vs. Scality ARTESCA vs. Vultr

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quantum ActiveScale
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Quantum offers the ActiveScale cloud object storage system, acquired from Western Digital February 2020, designed to provide a highly durable, scale-out economic storage system. ActiveScale is a more recent model replacing the former Amplidata Object Storage product line that was acquired by Western Digital from HGST in 2015.N/A
Scality ARTESCA
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Scality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
Vultr
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.
$2.50
per month
Pricing
Quantum ActiveScaleScality ARTESCAVultr
Editions & Modules
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Block Storage
$1
per month
Cloud Compute
$2.50
per month
Object Storage
$5
per month
Kubernetes Engine
$10
per month
Load Balancers
$10
per month
Managed Databases
$15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute
$28
per month
Cloud GPU
$90
per month
Bare Metal
$120
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Quantum ActiveScaleScality ARTESCAVultr
Free Trial
NoNoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact vendor for booking demo and pricing information.Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
Quantum ActiveScale
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Ratings
Scality ARTESCA
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Ratings
Vultr
8.4
59 Ratings
2% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings00 Ratings9.353 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings00 Ratings8.444 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings00 Ratings8.932 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings00 Ratings8.440 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.846 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings00 Ratings8.350 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings00 Ratings8.955 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings00 Ratings8.248 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.238 Ratings
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Quantum ActiveScaleScality ARTESCAVultr
Small Businesses
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
DigitalOcean Droplets
DigitalOcean Droplets
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
SAP on IBM Cloud
SAP on IBM Cloud
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Quantum ActiveScaleScality ARTESCAVultr
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
8.8
(61 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(1 ratings)
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9.6
(2 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(3 ratings)
Availability
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(0 ratings)
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
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(0 ratings)
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
8.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Configurability
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(0 ratings)
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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9.1
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Vendor pre-sale
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Quantum ActiveScaleScality ARTESCAVultr
Likelihood to Recommend
Quantum
Enterprise grade organizations with B2B clientele would be served well by using this product. It alleviates the need for an on-premise storage solution by offering a cloud-based alternative. Smaller organizations with less data capacity needs would be better served with an in-house solution, unless they come out with more reasonable pricing down the road.
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Scality
The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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Vultr
I've been with Vultr over 5 years hosting multiple businesses and email related services. I never experienced a significant outage or data loss. Migration has always been successful as well. Support is top tier and IP reputation is clean. I like the choices of OS, ease of platform use and multiple hosting/ region options.
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Pros
Quantum
  • Flexible data management options
  • Powerful data housing system storing trillions of bits of data seamlessly
  • Conveniently built in the cloud
  • Safe option for storing sensitive data
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Scality
  • I love the redundancy of the software.
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Vultr
  • Good performance from servers close to me and my customers
  • Ease of spinning up new servers
  • Great service levels of servers I spin up
  • Notifications of issues or downtime come through quickly, allowing me to handle client queries with knowledge in hand.
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Cons
Quantum
  • Lack of customization, though not much is needed with the out of the box solution
  • Better options for B2C customers
  • More flexible pricing plans
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Scality
  • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
  • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
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Vultr
  • The response times for support tickets is too high and a quicker response time would be appreciated
  • Availability of the VPS solution in Middle east and Africa would help
  • Abilito to connect SIP trunks would make it more easy to run active communictaion platforms on Vultr
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Likelihood to Renew
Quantum
It has been a fantastic solution, and now it is so highly integrated into our business, it would be difficult to imagine continuing to without it. It is part of our customer contracts as well, and it saves us from having to invest in the on-premise alternative to provide the required storage capacity.
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Scality
No answers on this topic
Vultr
Just a great product with no bells and whistles, which is the advantage. We spend very little time learning and using Vultr and more time using the systems we have in Vultr to complete our tasks. Not having to worry about the IT overhead is huge and saves a great deal of time
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Usability
Quantum
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Scality
As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
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Vultr
easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way.
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Support Rating
Quantum
Support has been wonderful. Representatives are generally empathetic and knowledgeable, and they’re quick to provide status and resolution.
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Scality
I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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Vultr
Vultr makes it easy to contact technical support. The techs are very competent. In a number of occasions they have bounced the responsibility back to me when they could have saved us all time and heartache by simply implementing the solution directly
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Implementation Rating
Quantum
No answers on this topic
Scality
No answers on this topic
Vultr
Vultr implementation seemed based on open-source tools and basic cloud principles - some things were more complicated to do compared with more developed cloud providers, but on the other hand it was more extensible by open-source tools.
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Alternatives Considered
Quantum
What sets Amplidata apart is the cloud-based storage capability. We’ve realized cost savings due to the fact that we are no longer housing the data on premise, and clients rest assured that they have greater visibility into their data.
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Scality
Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
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Vultr
Linode is a more old-school offering. Linode pricing model and infrastructure rely on classic Virtual Machines. What we like about Vultr is that they offer the same at the front, but in the back, the machines are much more flexible and can be tailor-made to our needs, which of course also impacts the costs of running the infrastructure.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Quantum
No answers on this topic
Scality
No answers on this topic
Vultr
Pricing is fair and did not increase
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Return on Investment
Quantum
  • Amplidata has enabled us to replace our on-premise data storage for many of our larger clients, thus reducing the cost to deploy and house this ourselves
  • Clients feel confident in storing their sensitive data with us knowing that they have full management and visibility at their fingertips
  • The ability to quickly scale allows us to meet the needs of clients of all sizes
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Scality
  • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
  • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
  • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
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Vultr
  • We have experienced a 200% return on using Vultr products with a 100% Customer Satisfaction rating.
  • Vultr gives us the regions to deploy where our small business customers are located.
  • Vultr has helped us scale up our company and our cloud solutions.
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ScreenShots

Vultr Screenshots

Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.Screenshot of Vultr's services offer additional configuration and inside of the simplified control panel.Screenshot of a display of when peak activity happens on an application. The server health graphs provide insight from the moment the server is created.Screenshot of Vultr's interface, which allows users to deploy high performance servers worldwide from any device.Screenshot of how to reach the 24/7/365 technical support team that is available through Vultr's ticketing system.